DEBBIE'S CRAFTY WISH LIST

I got lots of brilliant gift ideas from your comments yesterday. Yesterday’s winner was comment #11 from Lark. She said, “I plan to make a few sets of bias-trimmed placemats & napkins with funky fun fabrics similar to the ones on Purl Bee, maybe with hand-stitching. Also, a canning jar pincushion filled with a notions like few buttons & thread spools for my new-to-sewing daughter”

Pattern Drafting : The Skirt (class at the workroom) – I want to take this class because I dream about it being the first step I take in my new life as a master maker of beautiful clothes.

Liberty of London fabric – maybe just a fat quarter or two. For a couple of sweet projects and some textile design inspiration

Since it seems to be on everybody’s list, today’s winner will win their choice of one metre of Liberty of London fabric or a fat quarter of each of the five prints we have in stock right now. Choose from ‘My Little Star‘, ‘Mirabelle‘, ‘Zain‘, ‘Little Mari‘, and ‘Fairford‘. Just leave a comment (with your email address) letting me know if you’d like the metre or the fat quarters and what you might do with it, if you won it. Contest closes at midnight tonight. I’ll announce the winner tomorrow with our final crafty wish list!

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Ooooh! I love the Mirabelle, it reminds me of the bedsheets I had as a child. I think a metre of it would be perfect for making a shirred top (and I have some time to make it before the weather gets warm again!).

oh the zain fabric has been on my wish list for so long. i think i would take inspiration from you and try to make a dress out of it. try my hand at one of my new japanese dress books!

I’ve been enjoying your wish lists! I have many of the same wishes, including any of these gorgeous Liberty fabrics. My favorite is Fairford, with Mirabelle a close second. I’ve been collecting little pieces here and there in hopes of making a Liberty patchwork quilt. If I won a yard of one of these prints, it would go a long way to making that quilt a reality! 🙂 thanks so much for the chance! Happy holidays!

Oh a metre of Mirabelle! Love it so much.

I would make a sundress for my daughter. thanks for the chance to win, and happy holidays 🙂

Debbie’s list includes the mind-of-its-own sewing machine? That one scares me a little…
I would definitely choose the fat quarters, and find a project for each piece…
I’d use My little star to make myself a scarf with the freebie pattern from Small Stash Sewing; Mirabelle to add to the bridesmaid dress fabric I’m using to make a softie for my sister’s impending baby; Little Mari for a scarf for my MIL; The Zain to redo the previous panel I inserted into a too-small skirt I adore; and Fairford to pin up on the wall in my cubicle’s “crafty corner”. Phew!

I would love to have a meter of Little Mari, first because it matches my name, second because it’s gorgeous and third because, because. Now what I would do with it…probably three holes vest.

I love Mirabelle and Mari and would make something for my mother-in-law like a smashing vintage smock apron or set of placemats. She has three sons so is only a closet girly-girl and I think she would love for me to make her something for her newly renovated kitchen which she’s waited 23 years for. Thanks Karyn!

How true! What we all want! I would ask for a meter of the Fairford pattern and make a summer dress for my daughter. So beautiful!

Oh my gosh, my heart skipped several beats! I think it would be the metre of Little Mari (though I love them all, and Fairford is wonderful…). I would probably go for a blouse from it, or a beautiful bag lining, or maybe contrasting details on a dress (collar, pockets, and cuffs?). It really is beautiful. Thank you for offering all these wonderful giveaways!

Oooo… give me liberty or… I’d have to narrow it down between Zain and LIttle Mari! I think I would also do a japanese blouse or lining of a bag. I’m on a men’s shirt kick right now, would Zain make a zany men’s shirt or too much? Thanks Karyn!

I’d take the metre, and use it to make book covers for the notebooks I use at work everyday. It’s so much cheerier to walk in on a grey February day and have floral-covered notebooks waiting at your desk!

!!! I’ve been so busy at work that I’ve forgotten to enter the last two giveaways, but I’m taking a break so I don’t forget to enter this one!!!….I love them all but I think I would take a metre of Zain. First I would just look at it and love it, and love it and look at it, probably for a while….and then I think I’d try and put it in a quilt….my first adult sized quilt. Thanks Karyn, Happy holidays everyone!

i love mirabelle. so beautiful. i am just learning to sew so i think i’d like to start with something simple. maybe a tote?

All those liberty prints are so beautiful.. It’s so hard to choose! I love the “My Little Star” print too, but I think I’d probably pick a metre of the “Fairford” and make a sweet, spring tunic from one of the Japanese dress books.

How to make a decision. After much thinking I would pick a yard of Little Mari. As we are expecting for the second time, not knowing the sex of the baby, but very much hoping for a girl, I would make her some dresses with it. If it turns out we will have a boy, then I’ll have to make a top for myself. 🙂 Thank you for this awesome prize.

I would make a pillow case!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Um, I have to admit I have been sitting here for about an hour trying to decide which I would choose! Yes, I have puttered around doing other things at the same time but always with liberty in the back of my mind.

I *think* I have decided that I would choose the fat quarters *if* I won. Mostly because I wouldn’t be able to choose only one print! And, I must admit I’m at a bit skeptical that 1 meter of fabric would equal a blouse for me.

So, five fat quarters equals five+ amazing project ideas! Lining for purses and pouches to make me smile each time I unzip them; I love the idea of using them as details on a blouse (as someone suggested above); fabric covered buttons to use as buttons, magnets or ponytail holders; patchwork details on pillows; framed in embroidery hoops….I could go on.

The Mirabelle is gorgeous – I would make a little bonnet and perhaps a tooth fairy pillow from the remnants for my Granddaughter Isabella.

If I had a metre of ‘my little star’ … I would fold it neatly, put it on my shelf & gaze at it with love for at least 2 months – all the while designing & redesigning the perfect little spring top for it in my head. I’d be sure to make it in time to wear to church on Easter weekend 😉

I would love a meter of the Little Star Liberty fabric. I would probably make a little summer top for myself 🙂

That’s Christmas,let’s have a go !
With one meter of Little Mary, I would make a blouse, and as I want big sleeves, I would mix this fabric with plain white cotton. Yes, what about the body in Liberty and the sleeves simply white ? With a biais contrasting on both ?
By the way, I do like what you make and I wish I had the same kind of workroom in this part of the world (french Guiana, south America)
Thank you for sharing your good ideas and happy Christmas !

I’d definitely go for a metre of Little Mari – it’s so pretty! I think I would actually pay for a bit more and make a dress, or just use the metre for a flowy tank for next Summer. I love Liberty so much!

I love the Fairford print. A meter of that would certainly go to make something for my baby girl arriving in March, maybe a dress?

aaaHHH Debbie your my kind of Gal! apart from the bernina, I would really love some fat quarters encompassing as many liberties as I can! I have researched and studied the history of Liberty at College and I would somehow like to make a quilt that chronologically arranges the fabrics into their design eras….doe that make sense, Ive been thinking about this quilt time line for a little while this could be my opportunity to make it a reality! Merry Christmas and a sewy new year…hope santa sends the 440

A metre of Fairford for bunny dresses! I hope you all get everything on your wishlists. Merry Christmas, folks.

I would add another meter to it and make a beautiful maternity shirt. It would be such a treat.

Oh, I would love the fat quarters. I would set them on my desk and pet them for a few weeks…. once I worked up the courage, I think they might be destined to become some very special little Atelier Chouette patchwork owls!

I would LOVE a metre of My little Star. I would make a tunic or dress for my 2 year old daughter and I know that she would cherish it forever. She loves stars!

I just found your blog and love it! I would love the Zain as that is my 4 yr old son’s name and would make something for him. I have just found him crying because dinosaurs are all dead so maybe something with a dinosaur on it!

Oh wow, a metre of mirabelle or even fairford would be just wonderful. I can just picture a tunic top for my daughter (that is, if I can’t squeeze out one for me!)

What an awesome giveaway…Liberty Fabric is on my top three lust haves! I would love a metre of the Zain in the black/grey/white tones to make me a summer top, maybe a shirred one, or one out of my japanese sewing books…I will fantasise about this all day…love the anticipation of possibly winning something soooo lustworthy…now I just need the courage to cut into it…GRIN!

I would love to make a tunic style top or wrap skirt from Liberty Fabric. Or possible something from One Yard Wonders (which is also on my wishlist.)

oh wow. I hope to have enough confidence and sewing skills in a few years to cut into Liberty and then sew it! I’ve heard so much about it and don’t own any. So I think I would make myself a pretty blouse with Little Mari. . .but I love the Fairford too. . .too delicious! This is the kind of hypothetical question that I ponder when as I’m closing down my day and going to sleep. . . thanks in advance for a fun bedtime!

Wow, what a generous offer! It was so hard to decide, they are all such lovely fabrics. But, i adore the “My Little Star” too much! I think i’ll make it into a softie toy (piece of an owl) for my wee one, as well as a small lavender pillow for me. I’m sure i’ll have some remnants left over, and as i still have to make a lap quilt for my 6-month old, i will incorporate it into that!

Oh, my. I would love a meter of Zain and would use it to make a top from Happy Homemade vol. 1. Such gorgeous fabric!

what lovely items on debbie’s crafty wishlist… and to offer some liberty of london fabric in a give away… i just feel off my seat. since i am slowly getting back into sewing, i would really be pleased with ‘little mari’ to make into a tunic. happy holidays!

i’d love a metre of mirabelle to make me a pretty blouse!

hmmm… I think I would turn the 5 fat quarters into something quilted that would be useful but not wear out. Perhaps a tea cozy, or integrate them into a wall hanging. Napkins would be beautiful on a table too but I dont think I could bring myself to wipe my face with liberty. truthfully, I would need more than a day to decide.